Topic summary
Salvation Force
The Salvation Force (Kurdish: سپای ڕزگاری, Sipay Rizgarî; Persian: سپاه رستگاری, Sepāh-e Rastegāri) was a NaqshbandiIslamist militant group composed of Kurds, active in the Avroman region of Iranian Kurdistan during the 1979–1983 Kurdistan conflict and Iran–Iraq War. Like other Kurdish rebel groups in Iran, they aligned with and were armed by the Iraqi side. For the period of its existence, it was led by its founder Sheikh Muhammad Uthman Siraj al-Din Naqshbandi, of the prominent Sheikhs of Tawilah family.